♪ ♪ >> norah: tonight hurricane helene's catastrophic toll in the southeast. more than 100 killed. homes, businesses, and entire towns destroyed. >> it really hurts to see such devastation. >> norah: israel warns of an imminent ground invasion in lebanon.

as the united states sends thousands more troops to the middle east. >> we ultimately want to see a diplomatic resolution to this conflict. >> norah: with just one day until the cbs news' vice presidential debate, how the candidates are preparing to face off. >> looking forward to tomorrow. >> norah: the "cbs evening news" starts now. ♪ ♪ good evening, and thank you for joining us from the cbs news debate stage. this is where vice presidential candidates j.d. vance and tim walz will meet in their only debate before the election. we will have much more on that in a moment. we want to begin with the human tragedy caused by hurricane helene. more than 120 people are dead across six states. 600 are still missing. and today the president's security advisor said the death toll could climb dramatically. but the full scope of the 600-mile disaster is still not clear. helene crashed into florida as a category 4 hurricane with storm surge above 15 feet. and it was on to georgia, where the governor compared the

destruction to a bomb going off. but the highest death toll is in north carolina, hundreds of miles from landfall where the emergency is still unfolding tonight. many communities need food and fresh water. and with roads cut off, some volunteers are actually using mule teams to bring supplies to asheville, north carolina. you heard that right. cbs's skyler henry is just outside of asheville, and skyler, what is a situation like on the ground there? >> reporter: hey, norah. good evening to you. we were here as military personnel air dropped supplies to swannanoa, another small community just outside of asheville that saw significant damage following helene's destruction. the people here say, they will need all the help they can get as they work to recover. the southeast is suffering, days after hurricane helene's hit. nowhere appears to be hit harder than western north carolina. some areas received more than

2 feet of rain. roughly 600 people are still unaccounted for. >> but this is just hard to understand. this is just massive. this will take years to clean up if it is ever. >> reporter: the city of asheville and the area around it has been largely cut off since friday. cell service is mostly out. electricity won't be restored for days. and help has been slow to arrive. >> we have a lot of family businesses that have been here since the turn-of-the-century. they are devastated. and they are just trying to salvage anything that they can get. >> reporter: 10 miles east the tiny mountain town of swannanoa is named for the river that runs through it, the same river that washed it away. >> and this town is devastated. everybody focuses on big cities not here. and we need help. we need food. and i know people are coming, i know that they are coming. and i know that god has control.

it really hurts to see such devastation. >> reporter: anita crowder's husband had to use a chainsaw to get into her family's home. her father died a week ago, and now they say the flood took what little they had left. can't imagine this -- it must be tough. >> it is. to see everything he worked so hard for destroyed -- it's hard. these people work hard for what they've got, and it breaks your heart. >> reporter: federal officials are still working on how to coordinate dishing out supplies. that includes more than 40 starlink systems, 30 generators, and 60 pallets of water for people here in the community. norah. >> norah: it does break your heart to see what people are going through. skyler henry, thank you so much. well, tonight, president joe

biden is calling donald trump a liar after the former president said the current one is not doing enough to help storm victims. trump visited the storm zone in georgia today, and biden will be in north carolina on wednesday. cbs's scott macfarlane is on the ground in valdosta, georgia with more on the federal response and how the storm is affecting the presidential campaign. >> reporter: helene's path of destruction has forced the presidential candidates to change course. vice president kamala harris returned this afternoon from a stop in nevada where they spoke to fema leaders in washington. speaking to the governors. >> we will continue to do everything we can to help you recover and to help you rebuild no matter how long it takes. >> reporter: as a subdued donald trump visited a ravaged city and a battleground state valdosta, georgia, where the power is out, schools are closed, and roots, trees, and signs litter the streets. >> helene's just about the biggest anyone has seen. >> reporter: donald trump

falsely claimed that brian kemp could not reach president biden by phone even though kemp and the white house spoke this weekend. >> donald trump said that you are ignoring the -- >> he is lying. let's get this straight, he is lying. and the governor told him he was lying. >> reporter: and trump suggested elon musk provide satellite service to restore wi-fi, even though fema is already doing so. we asked him if this historic storm had asked trump would look at a new approach on a key issue? >> when you look about climate change, are you stressing about it? >> not too much. >> reporter: just down the street, downtown is shuttered with generator power candy balmer's restaurant is serving meals for those who need them street side. >> our focus is on our community, not any celebrity or politician that comes in. >> reporter: meanwhile president biden said he is demanding direct federal response. first from delaware them back at the white house this weekend. >> my responsibility is to get all help needed to those impacted areas. >> reporter: with absentee ballots already distributed there is another recovery issue

to our north in north carolina. cbs news has learned the state board of elections had an emergency meeting about the damage and said they will have a successful election no matter the damage. norah. >> norah: scott macfarlane thank you for being there. at this time tomorrow, both vice presidential candidates will be right here at the cbs broadcast center in new york for their only debate. cbs's nancy cordes has new reporting on tim walz and j.d. vance's tactics, with one day to go. >> reporter: ohio senator j.d. vance arrived in new york at midday today, as minnesota governor tim walz spent one last day prepping in northern michigan. >> how are you feeling about the debate? >> reporter: this is where they will face off for 90 minutes tomorrow night. the trump campaign says that vance will try to turn the focus to immigration. >> we are going to build a wall we're going to reimplement deportation. >> reporter: vance also plans

to challenge walz on his 24-year military career. >> these are my tim walz glasses. >> reporter: the republican congressman tom emmer has been playing walz in the mock debates. have you urged him to stay away from haitian migrants eating cats and dogs in ohio? >> he is going to concentrate on the issues that matter most. we have to focus on the economy. we need to focus on the border. we need to focus on peace and stability around the world. >> reporter: the latest cbs news poll finds more than half of the electorate considers vance competent. and the same goes for walz. but democratic voters are more enthusiastic about their party's pick for vp then republicans are. transportation secretary pete buttigieg has been playing the role of vance in walz's debate prep. democratic senator amy klobuchar is walz's longtime minnesota colleague. >> whenever he can get in a little bit of his personality, i think that's a good thing. >> reporter: it's been reported that governor walz is nervous about this debate. is that really true? >> i think that anyone that goes

out on the national stage and says, oh, i don't need to think about it at all, i think that they are not being honest. >> norah: and nancy cordes is here with me. so how are these candidates feeling about the debate that is going to be right here? >> reporter: they are setting expectations sky high for the other guy, so for example, the trump campaign said j.d. vance has only been a politician for a couple of years while tim walz has been in politics for 20 years, so he has the edge. then you have tim walz saying, i am simply a humble former schoolteacher, j.d. vance is a yale school debater, he has the edge. the reality is, norah, both of these men are very comfortable speaking extemporaneously about policy, which is part of what makes tomorrow night so interesting. >> norah: nancy cordes, thank you for that preview. and i will moderate tomorrow's vice presidential debate along with margaret brennan. live coverage at 8:00 p.m. eastern on cbs and for special streaming coverage head over to cbs news 24/7 starting at

4:00 p.m. today the pentagon said it is sending thousands of additional american troops to the middle east to bolster security as israel says it has begun an "unlimited optimal organization" and what wiped out most of hezbollah's leadership. we have two reports from chris livsay in tel aviv good evening, chris. >> reporter: good evening norah, confirming that israeli commandos are conducing raids into southern lebanon gathering intelligence on hezbollah's true positions in its tunnel systems ahead of an expected ground invasion. we witnessed some of the buildup. the roar of engines is the beating drum of war. at this staging area in northern israel, soldiers prepare to put israeli boots on the ground in southern lebanon. dozens and dozens of tanks armored fighting vehicles and bulldozers, everything you would expect for a ground invasion.

and the clearest sign yet that israel is preparing to expand the conflict. israeli defense minister yoav gallant tells his troops "we will employ all that is needed from the air, from the sea and also from the land." the mission to push back hezbollah and its onslaught of rockets forced around 70,000 israelis to flee their homes. two reserved for grades have been called up to join the thousands of soldiers already deployed on the border. the almost year-long conflict is poised to enter a new and potentially much deadlier phase. >> reporter: i am imtiaz tyab and beirut. hassan nasrallah was assassinated right here. since then, israel has intensified its attacks across lebanon. we are on the edge of the seat of hezbollista power following the strike there. this was once a five-story building and has been pretty

much all but obliterated. okay, we don't know exactly what that was, clearly a very loud strike in the distance, and it just underscores the situation across southern beirut as israel continues to strike it heavily. over 1,000 people have been killed in just two weeks. and nearly 1 million people displaced, according to lebanon's prime minister. including 14-year-old mustafa al musso. who shows us his pet birds he could not bear to leave behind. "a rocket fell so close to us," he says. you must have been so scared? >> yeah. >> you were? >> yes. >> reporter: and tonight they are in disarray following his release killing of so many of its leaders. but the military groups number two says his fighters are ready to confront any israeli ground invasion.

norah. >> norah: imtiaz tyab in beruit and chris livesay in tel aviv, thank you. we have breaking news, let's get to shanelle kaul. >> reporter: pete rose has died at the age of 83, and the baseball world has lost one of its most famous and infamous stars. rose played 24 seasons mostly for the cincinnati reds and remains the all-time hits leader. but in 1989, he was banned from major league baseball for gambling on the game which also blocked him from the hall of fame. pete rose will forever be known as one of baseball's most energetic and divisive figures. shanelle kaul, cbs news. >> norah: a labor dispute may affect some of your household purchases. that's beginning tomorrow. that story is next. >> norah: a labor dispute may affect some of your household purchases. that's next. i thought i'd have to settle for never stepping foot on this trail again.

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elderly population. >> reporter: this past spring joan prum's advanced age and frailty ushered in a new reality. >> at 98 its whole move territory. so i think i am doing pretty well. >> reporter: when you heard the word "hospice," what did that mean to you? >> i thought that unless you were really enfirm and bedridden, you would not be a candidate for hospice. but it turns out, not to be true. >> reporter: health care teams provide comfort to hospice patients expected to live no longer than six months. as with all palliative care train professionals offer medication and treatment to decrease pain and increase quality of life. but with hospice, attempts to cure an illness or stopped. >> people are afraid of that world, they think -- >> i just thought even mentioning hospice, i said beginning of the end.

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